Paisley Arts Festival: Digital Media Artist Commission

Paisley Arts Festival 2026
Digital Media Artist Commission

Timeframe: November 2025 – April 2026

Fee: £14368 plus up to a maximum of £8103 for materials if required. (Rate of pay based on an artist with 5+ years’ experience, £359.20 per day x 40 days between Nov – March)

Deadline for submissions: 7th November 2025

We are seeking a visionary Digital Media Artist to collaborate on the creation of a large-scale, outdoors digital artwork for the opening event of Paisley Arts Festival.

The artwork should be a high-impact public spectacle celebrating creativity, community, innovation and be rooted in place. The work will be a spectacle outdoor collaborative piece/experience responding to the festival theme ‘The Paisley Sound’. Paisley has always been bold, passionate and unafraid of noise. The Paisley Sound captures both the musical celebration and the town’s radical energy. It’s not empty noise, but sound with meaning – the roar of protest, the clatter of industry, the joy of music, and the creative defiance that defines Paisley.

The work will be presented at the opening event of the first edition of OneRen’s newest festival Paisley Arts Festival taking place between 27th – 29th March 2026.

Paisley Arts Festival is a 3-day programme across performance, music and visual arts, to be launched in March 2026.

The festival programme will take inspiration from Paisley’s unique stories, culture and locations where possible, animating the town centre, physically connecting the newly transformed cultural venues though a unique and unexpected programme of activity and experiences, that create a platform for a diverse range of performers/artists to have an impact that will ripple throughout Scotland and beyond.

Audiences will experience the town in new and inspiring ways, access high quality, relevant cultural activity, discover the arts through carefully curated programming, participate in creative activity and immersive events, engage with new and challenging ideas

For full details and how to apply please click link below.